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The Passenger Dragged Off a United Plane Is a Symptom of Airlines’ Ridiculous, Outdated Overbooking System. And a sign of living in an authoritarian police state.

The content mill. Other than the monetary reasons, I didn’t pursue writing because I don’t believe most editors are qualified to edit me.

The world spent less money to add more renewable energy than ever in 2016.

Student Debt Bubble Sucks Even More Out of Economy and Ruins Lives, Yet Officials Keep Inflating It.

How Real Are the Real Numbers?

You Are Now Paying Internet Companies to Sell Your Browsing History to Advertisers. Freedom.

Rich Americans live up to 15 years longer than poor peers, studies find.

NYC bans salary history questions during hiring process.

Here’s how much of America is occupied by big box stores.

The Gig Economy’s False Promise.

Imaging and imagining black holes.

The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews.

How Goldman Sachs Made More Than $1 Billion With Your Credit Score.

Social Darwinism is based on a simplistic misunderstanding of evolution.

The last thing America needs from Trump’s infrastructure plan is more roads.

How Middle-Class America Got Fleeced.

Parkageddon: How not to create traffic jams, pollution and urban sprawl. Not so simple in the US. Eliminating parking will not magically lead to the nirvana this article imagines.

Softball-sized spider species discovered in Baja California caves.

The Case for ‘Death Proof’ as Essential Tarantino. Death Proof might be my favorite Tarantino film not least because of Zoë Bell. She is not the only reason to watch the film, but goddamn is she great.

America’s cities have domestic net out-migration because they’re not affordable.

Google Accused of ‘Extreme’ Gender Pay Discrimination By US Labor Department.

If a stranger grabbed my arm and said “If you (insert literally anything here) for one hour I will give you $6” I would laugh and keep walking.

Ugliness isn’t the problem and newness isn’t any kind of solution. Insolvency is the problem. This landscape doesn’t generate enough value to maintain the required infrastructure that supports it. Very good article, despite needing a proofreader.

The slow death of the retail industry hammered the jobs report. Also see this.

Low-dose penicillin in early life induces long-term changes in murine gut microbiota, brain cytokines and behavior.

Hard Work Isn’t Enough to Climb the Economic Ladder.

New Mexico Outlaws School ‘Lunch Shaming.’

Does Everyone Always Act in Their Self-Interest?

Atmosphere found around Earth-like planet GJ 1132b.

Deceptive Resolution: When Chords Misbehave.

Liberal Britain has nothing to say.

The Spoils of War: Trump Lavished With Media and Bipartisan Praise For Bombing Syria. Taste that freedom, Syrians!

New Malware Strain Intentionally Bricks IoT Devices.

Washington state’s new 8 megawatt-hour flow battery is the largest of its kind. Note that this another technology developed by national research, privatized for profit.

Extremely sensitive experiment shows no hint of a key radioactive decay. Physics experiment searches for a decay with a half-life older than the Universe’s.

When did modern philosophy begin? – On ‘The Age of Genius’ by A. C. Grayling.

Noam Chomsky Calls Democrats’ Obsession With Russia Conspiracy Theories “A Joke.”

In my dissertation, I’m looking at how what you think you know about a speaker affects what you hear them say.

Young Americans’ salaries haven’t increased in over 25 years.

Why couldn’t we have just the physical process, but no consciousness? Consciousness is either impossible or very simple. That I can’t decide which is what makes it fascinating.

Autonomous pods solve more problems than driverless cars.

French actually has more velar and uvular sounds than German does. Yes, and those are very hard for English speakers to reproduce.

Somerdale to Skarbimierz.

Keynes’ flaws. As Hillary partisans seem not to understand, just as important to see the flaws in your heroes and mentors as in your enemies.

Google TPU chomps data at least 15x faster than regular hardware.

There’s nothing inherently magical about the human brain.

Former Obama Aide Who Helped Kill Single-Payer in the ACA Solicits Donations for Sick Friend’s GoFundMe Page.

Big data renews fight over animal origins.

Minority Neighborhoods Pay Higher Car Insurance Premiums Than White Areas With the Same Risk. Well, the insurance companies have to consider that when the cops take you out with a hail of gunfire, the car might get hit, too.

Psychologists from the university of Georgia have found people with personality disorders are more likely to marry or make friends with people who are dysfunctional in a similar way. Least shocking finding ever, really.

Phony VPN Services Are Cashing in.

The Deification of Hillary Clinton.